On 18 November 2010 13:44, Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 17:31, Przykuta <przyk...@o2.pl> wrote: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:African_American_Wikipedians > > > > 146 who use template {{User afr-amer}} on user pages. i don't know who is > active in wp > > After looking into the number of American, Polish and Serbian > Wikipedians, I thought that the numbers are interesting. However, > those numbers mean nothing: > > * 3,561 are categorizing themselves as American Wikipedians [1]; > population 300M+, English is native > * 1,779 as Wikipedians in California [7][8]; population: 36M, English is > native > * 1,450 as Australian Wikipedians[4]; population 22M, English is native > * 921 as British Wikipedians [10]; population 62M, English is native > * 689 as French Wikipedians [12]; population 65M, English is not native > * 616 as English Wikipedians [11]; population 51M, English is native > * 561 as Polish Wikipedians [3]; population 38M, English is not native > * 146 as African American Wikipedians; population 38M, English is native. > * 101 as Wikipedians in San Francisco [9]; population 3/4M, English is > native > * 68 as German Wikipedians [5][6]; population 81M, English is not native > * 24 as Serbian Wikipedians [2]; population 7M, English is not native > > <snip>
Actually, none of these "statistics" are relevant, because the overwhelming majority of Wikipedians do not use userboxes to describe their nationality, age, sex, or race. While I'm sure that Wikipedia's editorship is not particularly reflective of the world at large, using userboxes as a metric to determine representation of various groups is not particularly helpful. Many very involved users don't include userboxes in their userspace (myself included), or don't use the userboxes that involve sex, race, age or nationality. It strikes me that I see probably 50 language-skill-related userboxes for every userbox that confirms geographic location or sex. Risker/Anne _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l